Steve Bruce

Steve Bruce is professor of sociology at the University of Aberdeen. An internationally-known expert on religion and politics, he is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His books include: Secular Beats Spiritual: the Westernization of the Easternization of the West; Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory; and Sociology: A Very Short Introduction. His book Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012, won the Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year Award, 2014.